Talk:Business routes of U.S. Route 287 in Texas
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To Be Continued edit
Will finish article in near future.
Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 05:40, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
- I want to share some best practices for list articles of this genre.
- Use the the city or location name as the heading for each section; The letter suffixes aren't going to mean a whole lot in the table of contents
- Sort the sections in south-to-north order to keep them geographically lined up.
- Something to note is that it isn't a good idea to duplicate section names because if someone tries to link to that section, they may end up in a different one.
- Since these will all be short and fairly self contained, I wouldn't try to make separate route description subsections with separate history subsections. Just give them separate paragraphs.
- I wouldn't put a true heading above the junction list tables; I just start the line with a semicolon (;) so that the pseudo-heading appears in bold.
- In fact, if there aren't any junctions for a business route except the termini, you can omit the table completely; if only one route in the whole list though would be missing a table, put one it anyway in the end.
- Don't forget to create the redirects. That way {{jct|state=TX|US-Bus|287|dab1=Vernon}} will link to U.S. Route 287 Business (Vernon, Texas) which redirects to Business routes of U.S. Route 287 in Texas#Vernon.
- If any have separate articles, then they still need a summary here with the {{main}} hatnote at the top of the subsection. Imzadi 1979 → 08:27, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Mansfield–Fort Worth summary edit
Business U.S. Highway 287 | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mansfield–Fort Worth |
| Length | 38.613 mi[1] (62.142 km) |
| Existed | January 14, 1991[1]–present |
Business US Highway 287-P (BUS US 287-P) is a 38.613-mile-long (62.142 km) business loop that serves as a main street for Mansfield, downtown Fort Worth and Saginaw. The loop was designated on January 14, 1991. It replaced a portion of Loop 496, and the old route of US 287 and US 81. The business loop was then rerouted several times during the 1990s.
- Comments
- This section, if pasted into the article, doesn't need its junction list. Leave that level of detail to the main article on the business loop.
- It does need an infobox and short summary. We could expand upon this a bit, but I'd try to keep it to a single paragraph without too much detail. Remember, the full article will have all of the details.
- We just need to give the reader enough detail to place this business loop into context with the others, so I tried to touch on a few important highlights.
Imzadi 1979 → 21:18, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- Honestly, I think the article should redirect here and after the content is fully merged in. –Fredddie™ 01:43, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, I agree, but if the article is left stand-alone, this is what should be done. Imzadi 1979 → 02:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Accidental Mistag edit
I mistagged as nofootnotes
My apologies,
Athleek123 (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2012 (UTC)